Report Links Virginity to Better Health in Teens

“A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that virginal teens rate consistently better in nearly all health-related behaviors than their sexually active peers.

According to an article appearing in the National Catholic Register, Glenn T. Stanton, author and social science researcher at Focus on the Family, the CDC’s new study is particularly interesting because it goes beyond just measuring sexual activity but also examines a variety of safety and health behaviors as well. These include everything from binge drinking and pot smoking to seat belt and tanning bed use.

The report examined three categories of students: virginal, heterosexually active (OSA) and same-sex or bi-sex sexually active (SS/BA). It’s two major conclusions are:

• The virginal students rate significantly and consistently better in nearly all health-related behaviors than their sexually active peers. They do so by remarkably stunning measures.

• Teens who have sexual contact with the same or both sexes have remarkably lower percentages of healthy behaviors overall than their heterosexually active peers.”

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